This web page provides links to brochures and other media that have been translated into community languages for understanding of
health-related information into native languages.
Brochures
American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Facts for Families
American
Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Spanish-Language Public Information
[español]
American
Podiatric Medical Association Foot Health Brochures in Spanish
Free Publications for Women
(in 21 languages)
Making
the Choice: Deciding What to Do About Early Stage Prostate Cancer
Managing Common Symptoms
And Side Effects
Multicultural
Mental Health Australia
NewSouthWales
Multicultural Health
Nutrition Education for New Americans
Office on Women's
(OWH)
Health Health Fact Sheets
in Spanish
Royal
College of Psychiatrists Chinese Language Factsheets and Leaflets
Royal
Women's Hospital Wellwomen's Health Information in 22 Languages
Society
of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Patient Information Brochures
Spanish-Language
Publications for Diabetes [español]
TB
Fact Sheets and Brochures in 13 Languages
Translations
of Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale
"24 Languages Project"
Vaccine
Information Statements
American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Facts for Families
The AACAP
provides concise and up-to-date information on issues that affect children,
teenagers, and their families. These handouts are available in English,
Spanish,
German,
Malaysian,
and Polish
American
Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Spanish-Language Public Information [español]
The American
Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons provides
patient education brochures and fact sheets for prevention and treatment of
specific orthopaedic injuries and diseases as well as health care issues
available in Spanish. Click here for other available languages
American
Podiatric Medical Association Foot Health Brochures in Spanish
The American
Podiatric Medical Association has produced
eighteen (so far) informational brochures in Spanish.
Free
Publications for Women
These brochures are in an easy-to-read pamphlet format and
are available in English, Spanish,
and in 21 other languages. Provided by the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration and its Office
of Women's Health.
Making
the Choice: Deciding What to Do About Early Stage Prostate Cancer
If a biopsy has shown that you have early stage prostate cancer, this website is
for you. The Michigan
Cancer Consortium gives you the facts about
your disease, your treatment choices, and the possible results of those choices.
This booklet is available in Arabic,
English,
and Spanish.
Adobe
Acrobat Reader required
to read and/or print the topic document.
Managing
Common Symptoms And Side Effects
Inova
Health System's Life With Cancer program provides these
tip sheets in English and 12 other language translations.
Multicultural
Mental Health Australia
Established in 1995, it
is a national body that links State and Territory transcultural mental health
centres and networks with the goal of improving mental health outcomes for
Australia’s diverse communities.This
web site provides links to brochures and other media that have been translated
into community languages, sources for paper copies of the brochures and
multilingual dictionaries. Browse or search their database of mental health
resources to locate what your are looking for.
NSW
Multicultural Health
This statewide service based in the South Eastern Sydney
Australia Area Health Service provides quality information about health issues
and health services to people of non-English speaking backgrounds in their
service area. Choose the topic you are interested in then click on the topic heading. Once you find the publication you want, you can view and
print it from your computer. You may search by language, as well.
Nutrition
Education for New Americans
36 language sets contain Food Pyramids plus four handouts for
healthy adults, mothers and babies, mature adults, and children, which may be
used individually or as a package. Created by Georgia State University they all
are bilingual and copyright free. Though they
have lost their funding, you may still find ALL the brochures, in their
entirety, by clicking on the link!
Office
on Women's Health Health (OWH) Fact Sheets in Spanish
The Office
of Women's Health (OWH) created these easy-to-read fact sheets on over 42
health-related topics in Spanish. All are also available in English.
Royal
College of Psychiatrists Language Factsheets and Leaflets in 14 Languages
The
Royal College of Psychiatrists have produced
this array of mental health information in Chinese translation by Castle
Peak Hospital, Hong Kong. Mental
health information is also available in English.
Royal
Women's Hospital Wellwomen's Health Information in 28 Languages
The Wellwomen's
FactSheet A to Z,
put together by the Women's Health Program at The
Royal Women's Hospital Melbourne, Australia,
presents multilingual / multicultural obstetrical and gynecological health
information.
Society
of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Patient Information
Brochures
SAGES
provides information on numerous minimally invasive surgical procedures in
English, Polish, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
Spanish-Language
Publications for Diabetes [español]
The
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
provides these easy-to-read publications in either a booklet or fact sheet
format.
TB
Fact Sheets and Brochures in 13 Languages
The Minnesota
Department of Health provides 5 downloadable
factsheets in 13 languages covering TB disease diagnosis and management.
Translations
of Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale
Internationally known expect in the field of
pediatric nursing, Donna Wong developed a scale for assessing pain in children;
it is also used to assess pain in adults. Better known as the Wong-Baker FACES
Pain Rating Scale, all translations are of the original instructions.
"24
Languages Project"
Electronic access to over 200 health
education brochures in 24 different languages from the Bureau of Primary Care,
Rural and Ethnic Health section of the Utah Department of Health.
Vaccine
Information Statements (VISs)
These are information sheets produced by
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that explain to vaccine
recipients, their parents, or their legal representatives both the benefits and
risks of a vaccine. Federal law requires that VISs be handed out whenever
certain vaccinations are given.
Page Last Updated: October 28, 2009